SUNRISE RESOURCES PLC AIM Announcement 19 September 2016 SUNRISE RESOURCES PLC ("the Company") Strategy and Business Overview

Sunrise Resources plc (LON:SRES), the London Stock Exchange AIM-traded diversified

mineral exploration and development Company, is pleased to announce a Strategy and Business Overview for the Company.

Patrick Cheetham, Executive Chairman notes: "I am pleased to announce this overview for shareholders as we continue to develop our business in readiness for what the Board believes is a building recovery phase for the commodity sector.

Sunrise has numerous interests across its portfolio of mineral assets and represents a diversified mineral resource investment opportunity. Our business model and focus on precious metals and strategic industrial mineral commodities, together with diligent project selection, has delivered a project portfolio with the potential for considerable returns for shareholders from a spread of business interests.

The Board recognises that from an external viewpoint the depth and breadth of our activities may appear complex and therefore challenging to fully appreciate the fundamentals of the Company's business model. Consequently we are working to further improve our communications through RNS announcements, additional media work and website enhancement, to make our business model better understood and create a wider level of market awareness.

This announcement also contributes by outlining the extent of our activities and summarising the status and plans for each project.

Sunrise is highly ambitious and we consider the next commodities cycle will present a tremendous opportunity. We are cost effectively run, have assembled a very strong portfolio of interests and are looking forward to updating the market on a regular basis with progress across our business activities."

STRATEGIC OVERVIEW

Sunrise Resources' aim is to create value for shareholders through the discovery of economic mineral deposits and develop profitable mining operations to sustain the Company's wider exploration efforts.

The Company's strategy to achieve this aim is to acquire, explore and when appropriate develop mineral projects in stable, democratic and mining friendly jurisdictions targeting:

  1. advanced projects which have the potential to generate a sustaining cash flow; and

  2. near-drill stage projects where there is potential for a significant mineral discovery.

BUSINESS MODEL

The Company identifies mineral project opportunities through extensive archival research and follow up exploration. It prefers to acquire its project interests by staking and licencing of 'open ground' from the relevant authority. This allows the Company to acquire 100% ownership of valuable assets, often at minimal cost.

Sunrise is primarily focused on the quality of the opportunity rather than any one specific commodity or industrial mineral. For operational synergies, Sunrise prefers to generate new projects in commodities or geographical areas where it already has interests. An example of this is the acquisition of the Baker's Gold Project in the same region as the Cue Diamond Project in Australia.

The Board seeks to run the Company with a low cost base in order to maximise the amount that is spent on exploration and development as this is where value can be added. Through the cost sharing arrangement with Tertiary Minerals plc (LON:TYM) the Company has the services of their 5 full time employees who also oversee a range of carefully selected and experienced consultants and contractors as and when work requires.

In exploring for world-class mineral deposits the Board accepts that not all exploration will be successful but also that the rewards for success can be spectacular.

PROJECT OVERVIEW

SR MINERALS INC - NEVADA, USA (100% Sunrise)

SR Minerals Inc. is the Company's original operating vehicle in Nevada and holds two industrial minerals projects and a number of precious and base-metal projects.

County Line Diatomite Project:

A potential new source of high value filter aid diatomite, a commodity utilised primarily as a filtering media in the food and beverage processing industry. Investors wishing to understand the uses of diatomite can refer to the following web link from the Industrial Minerals Association of North America:

http://www.ima-na.org/?page=what_is_diatomite

The County Line Project is currently leased to EP Minerals, LLC (a leading diatomite producer) under a 25 year lease which is renewable for a further two periods of 25 years or a maximum of 75 years in total. EP Minerals can terminate the lease at any time.

Sunrise holds a revenue-based royalty payable six months from the start of production and the first advanced royalty payment of US$450,000 is due in June 2017.

Further details of the transaction can be found in the announcement dated 3 December 2015 through the following web link:

http://w3w.sunriseresourcesplc.com/downloads/Sunrise%20Resources%20plc%20-

%20RNS%20-%20Agreement%20-%20County%20Line%20Diatomite%20Project%20-

%203%20December%202015.pdf

The Company benefits from the potential to receive royalty income at no further cost to the Company through this agreement with EP Minerals.

Pozz Ash Project:

Natural pozzolan is considered to be a "green" cement replacement raw material and the Company has identified in Nevada a new potential source for pozzolan. Natural pozzolans have been used for millenia and many of the Roman structures built with pozzolan concrete remain today.

Although this project is still within the early evaluation stage there is considered to be a large resource potential and the Company is undertaking work to assess this.

The specific work involves process testwork and cement testing in conjunction with an existing cement producer and results will be provided to market as soon as practicable.

One key advantage is that the Company may be able to implement a low cost development supplying natural pozzolan to a growing regional market. However taking a wider view the Company sees a global growth opportunity in natural pozzolan.

Investors wishing to learn more about pozzolan and the Company's project should refer to the following web link:

http://www.sunriseresourcesplc.com/projects/pozz-ash-project

Bay State Silver Project:

The Bay State Project is a historic mine site with a narrow high-grade mesothermal silver deposit.

The Company's work to date has encompassed positive underground sampling and Phase 1 drilling with high grade silver encountered in the first three drill holes. The grades included up to 1,460g/t (42.6 ounces per tonne) silver as announced to the market on 22 October 2015.

On 30 August 2016 Sunrise announced that Phase 2 drilling would commence on 7 September 2016 and would follow up the high-grade silver encountered during the first phase of drilling. Drilling is now completed and results are expected within 6 weeks. The Company has drilled two holes to test the Chihuahua Vein south of Mining Canyon and beneath 19thand 20thcentury mine workings and one hole as a first test of the Lincoln Vein System.

The Bay State Silver Project is permitted for sufficient drilling to define a maiden mineral resource. The Company's plan is to drill-demonstrate tonnage potential, carry out economic modelling and seek a JV partner for delineation drilling under existing permits targeting a minimum 10 million ounce silver reserve.

Further information on this project can be found on the Company's website through the following link:

http://www.sunriseresourcesplc.com/projects/bay-state-silver-project

Garfield Copper-Gold Project:

The Garfield Project emerged from the Company's own internal prospecting programme. To date one trench has been completed demonstrating 22m grading 0.33% copper mineralisation, including:

  • 2 metres grading 2.18% copper and 0.48 g/t gold from 16m-18m;

  • 2 metres grading 1.2 g/t gold and 0.07% copper from 8m-10m.

The Company intends to continue low cost trenching activities along strike from the initial discovery outcrop where the early trenching was undertaken.

The Garfield Project offers the potential for a large low grade copper discovery and subject to continuing exploration success the Company will seek a strategic farm out of the project.

Junction Gold Project:

Junction Gold is another internally generated prospecting discovery and work to date has identified samples of outcropping vein material with assays up to 16 g/t gold.

The next phase of work includes soil sampling to define targets for trenching and drilling to determine the full potential of this new discovery, although the results to date are favourable.

WESTGOLD INC - NEVADA, USA (100% Sunrise)

Incorporated in Nevada in 2016 as a project generator for gold and silver projects in the western US, primarily to capitalise on opportunities for staking projects that have lapsed in recent years and during the recent poor market conditions.

Westgold projects are so far staked at minimal cost on the basis of historical drill or surface sample results that warrant follow-up and the strategy is to farm out these projects or to complete limited drilling to substantiate historical results prior to farm-out. The project generation work is on-going and the Company will seek to update the market as material developments occur.

Further information on the creation of this new subsidiary can be found in the market announcement issued on 19 May 2016 which can be viewed through the following web link:

http://www.sunriseresourcesplc.com/downloads/Sunrise%20Resources%20plc%20-

%20RNS%20-%20New%20US%20Subsidiary%20and%20Projects%20-

%2019%20May%202016.pdf

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